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Inequality, Crime, and Health among African American Males : Enduring Social Costs of Racial Inequality.
In this volume, authors draw from theoretical and methodological frameworks in the health, social and behavioral sciences to illustrate how poor outcomes among individuals and communities can be linked to the interplay of multiple factors operating at various levels.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bingley :
Emerald Publishing Limited,
2018.
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| Colección: | Research in Race and Ethnic Relations Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Inequality, Crime, and Health Among African American Males; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction to Volume 20; References; A Social Ecological Framework of Inmate Health: Implications for Black-White Health Disparities; Ecological Theory of Human Development; Individual-level Health Effects of Imprisonment; The Deprivations of Prison Life; The Prison as an Equal Access Healthcare System; Health Following Release; Summary; The Interaction of the Prison with Nested Social Ecologies; Microsystem: The Family; Spillover Effects
- Meso/Exosystem: Education SystemsSpillover Effects; Meso/Exosystem: Healthcare Systems; Spillover Effects; Macrosystem: Systems of Racial Oppression; Conclusion; References; The Relationship Between Health, Cigarette Smoking and Criminal Justice Contact among African Americans; Introduction; Incarceration and Physical Health; Incarceration and Oral Health; Smoking and Physical and Oral Health Among African Americans; Purpose of the Study; Methods; Sample; Measures; Dependent Variables; Independent Variables; Analysis Strategy; Results; Discussion; Limitations; Conclusions; Acknowledgements
- Adverse Life Experiences and PsychosisThe Overlapping Myths and Stereotypes; The Limits and Dangers of the Biologistic Approach to Psychosis; The Excessive Faith in Psychiatric Drugs; Psychosis and Suffering; The Diagnosis of Psychotic Illness in Black Patients; Racism and Vulnerability to Psychosis: The Case of Frank Walter; The Overlap of Myths and Stereotypes and Its Consequences; The Psychiatric and Carceral Confinement of Black Men With Psychiatric Diagnoses; The Mainstream Psychiatry and the Black Tradition of Resistance; References; Suicide among Young African American Males
- Introduction: Background and Epidemiology of Suicidal Behavior Among African American MalesRisk and Protective Factors; Descriptive Analysis of the Circumstances Associated with Suicide Among Young African American Males; Prevention Strategies; New Technology For Suicide Prevention; Conclusion; Notes; References; Life Under the Veil: Homicide in Black America Before, During, and After the Drop in US Crime; Black Lives Lost Over Time in America; Dead and Missing Black Babies: Infant Mortality, Low Fertility Rates, and Abortion